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If I could pick one thing that I do every year to prepare my family for cold and flu season, it would be stocking up on an Immune Boosting tincture. Now don’t get me wrong… I love using garlic during this time of the year too, especially since it has awesome antibacterial properties, but when […]

Creative play… what does that look like in my house?  This was the question I had to think about when I decided to come along and be a part of the Playful Learning blog tour that’s been going on all month. Like I said earlier, bloggers from around the world are getting together on this […]

When any of my little ones start coming down with a cold or any respiratory type illness, I know it’s not only time to pull out the echinacea root tincture, but it’s also time to increase the amount of garlic they’re eating. So what do I do? I immediately go to my kitchen and whip […]

When I was new to herbs, I did everything by the book… meaning, I’d get out an herbal how-to book, look up how to make something, and follow the directions step by step. I followed recipes when making an immune-boosting tincture right down to 1 part of this and 2 parts of that with so […]

This month the Playful Learning Ecademy is on tour across blogs around the world, searching for kids and adults of all ages to get creative and show off how they play right where they are. Follow along with the tour (see below) and join in to build leadership skills, awaken creativity, and inspire a love […]

Meal planning is something I’m pretty new to, and I love it. Before, when I’d try to come up with meals by pulling stuff out of my fridge and just going with it, we’d end up eating less healthy foods that were usually not balanced very well. Plus, I wasted so much food by not […]